"Three of the admins behind The Pirate Bay are all still guilty, a Swedish appeals court decided on Friday, but their jail time has been reduced. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom's prison sentences have all been reduced from the original one year to between 4 and 10 months each, though the trade-off is an increase in damages that they must pay to the music and movie industries."

When I was a kid we taped records from our mates all the time, and in exchange let them tape ours. There was no way anybody could have afforded all this stuff on pocket money so what the heck. You bought the stuff you really wanted, or you knew the other guy did not have and swapped.
This entire logic about downloads equating to lost sales is schewed. A lot of people most likely would never buy this stuff in the first place and only download because it is available.
1.) Lack of financial resources
2.) To be frank, most stuff coming out is just NOT THAT GOOD that you would spend your money on it.

How many time have I downloaded some of these new singers like Winehouse or some movie and quickly deleted it glad that I didn´t pay for it cos it would have been an utter waste of money. Shutter Island - Urgh.
I call it sampling. If it´s really good, a music or movie lover will buy it anyway. But there´s no way we can afford it all. The industry needs to wake up.